Denton County continues to work on a project that would lay a freeway across the northeastern section of the county, improving infrastructure before residential and commercial growth swallow up the area.
The Denton County Outer Loop project calls for a six-lane freeway that goes east-west, spanning from I-35 north of the I-35W/I-35E junction out to the Dallas North Tollway in Collin County.
Plans on the Outer Loop website shows one option with a plan to start the freeway at Milam Road and another plan that starts the freeway further north at Rector Road.
Denton County said three main purposes fueled the anticipated project: rapid population and traffic growth, high crash rates on nearby roadways and limited mobility in the area due to a lack of east-west routes…